Small-state Mediation in International Conflicts: Diplomacy and Negotiation in Israel-Palestine - Book Launch

CIPS (Centre of International
Policy Studies) in the Department of International Politics, are pleased to
host the book launch. There will be a presentation by Jacob Eriksson, followed by
Q&A session

Dr Eriksson is a lecturer in Post-war Recovery
Studies in the Post- war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) at the
University of York. He holds BA and MA degrees from the War Studies Department
at King’s College London, and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS).

Eriksson argues that mediation
by small states such as Sweden and Norway has proved an indispensable tool of
conflict resolution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although they lack
coercive power, the talks they sponsored have transformed both the conflict and
the conceptions of a solution to it.

While there are important lessons to learn
from their engagement, small states alone are unlikely to hold the key to a
resolution. Any conflict-ending agreement is going to require multi-party
mediation which includes the diplomatic and financial power of the USA and
other regional actors. Ultimately, however, only the parties themselves can
make the concessions required for a permanent solution, and a highly intrusive
mediation strategy is not necessarily best placed to achieve this. If peace is
to last, a deal cannot be coerced but must be based on shared understandings of
long-term interests.

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